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The work area is an memory area that is used to perform data operation such as:

• SORT see sort area memory,
• HASH JOIN see hash area memory,
• GROUP BY,
• BUFFERING,
• BITMAP MERGE,
• or BITMAP CREATE

It's in the PGA

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